Live Auction 17034American Art
Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Lot 30 The Michael Scharf Family Collection

Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)

Sunlight after the Rain

Closed22 May 2019

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USD 93,750

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Charles Ephraim Burchfield (1893-1967)
Sunlight after the Rain
signed 'CE Burchfield' (lower right)--dated '6-17-1916-' and inscribed with title (on the reverse)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper
19 ¾ x 13 ¾ in. (50.2 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1916.

Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York.
Helen and David B. Pall, Roslyn Estates, New York, acquired from the above.
Estate of the above.
Christie's, New York, 19 May 2005, lot 25, sold by the above.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Specialist note

We would like to thank Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, for her assistance with cataloguing this lot.

The present work was likely inspired by the view out the window of Charles Burchfield’s childhood home in Salem, Ohio.